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Originally Posted by hidari
Seems like most of the people who buy ebook readers are satisfied. The size is correct. A "bigger" size is not portable and easier to break. The "day" of the ebook has arrived; otherwise, you would not have companies as big as Amazon and Sony in the Market
. Your request for bigger and colour is in the minority of users i would guess. most people want to READ books. Hence, black and white is fine for reading 90 percent of the books out there. I am sure a 'comic book' oriented reader of large size will arrive one day. Funny thing is, Here in Japan 90 percent of manga is in black and white.
I would say the price of the readers is not that high considering how overpriced the 'ipod' is for example. If you read 25 books from GP on your dedicated reader who have basically gotten your money back. And as many have said... e-ink and the battery life with it in themselves are enough to justify a high price. I only charge my 505 and Gen 3 about twice a month...
hidari  |
I think increased resolution (720x1024) would be good for pdf and anime.
Also, Robertb, How can you explain that an EeePc2G is being sold for 300$ ($250 on ebay), while it has:
- a 800x480 color backlit LCD screen.
- 2x0.5W speakers
- A Celeron D 800Mhz processor
- 2GB SLC (FAST) SSD onboard
- SDHC cardreader
- 512MB SoDimm DDR2 memory
- Wifi & 100mbit LAN
- Soundcard (mic-in,headph.-out)
- 80% size keyboard and 2button mousepad
- VGA out
- 3xUSB
- Kingston lock
- 0,3Mpix webcam
all that seems like twice as expensive to me, yet sells for the same price!
($20more for the 4GB version)
some e-readers like the Iliad sell for a price ($699-$799)where you can buy a fullsize notebook for (in the likes of an Intel Core2Duo 2Ghz, 14,1" 1280x800 pix, with 200GB HD, and 2GB of RAM, wifi b/g/n, 1Gbit lan, 3xusb, vga out, internal DVD-RW, kingston)..